Meeting with Veterans of Local Wars “Time Chose Us”

On February 25 at 5 pm National Library of Udmurt Republic is hosting a meeting with veterans of local wars “Time Chose Us” as part of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War celebrations and timed to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistant and Defender of the Fatherland Day. The event will take place at Kamsky Institute of the Humanities and Engineering Technologies (V. Sivkova, 12a).

The meeting will be participated by veterans of the Great Patriotic War, representatives of Military Registration and Enlistment Office of the Udmurt Republic, Udmurt regional branch of All-Russian Public Organization “Combat Fellowship”. The evening will feature poems and bard songs about front-line comradeship and loyalty, personal memories by local wars veterans.

The program of the evening will also feature performance by “The Bard’s Guitar” studio, Izhevsk.

The meeting will be accompanied by the book exhibition “Time Chose Us” staged by the National Library of the Udmurt Republic. The exhibition will display memoirs, historical and documentary prose, journalistic writings by Soviet and Russian authors revealing the history and certain events of the local conflicts participated by Armed Forces of the USSR and the Russian Federation.